Does Vatican have huge secret porn collection?
Does the Vatican have the world's largest pornography collection? A while back, Daze linked to a Cecil Adams Straight Dope column digging into this longstanding rumor. The urban legend snoops at Snopes also look into the Vatican porn story. Both declare the legend untrue. Barbara Mikkelson at Snopes writes, "The Vatican museums have a few little things from the Renaissance and a couple of drawings by Michelangelo of some phallic fantasies, but that's about it. . . . Though the rumor about the Holy See's holdings is unfounded, it continues to spread, often vectored by those one would think would know better. Visitors to Copenhagen's Museum Erotica are routinely informed the Vatican Library holds the largest collection of erotica and pornography in the world. Camille Paglia and William F. Buckley, Jr. have also claimed this canard as fact in their writings."
